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When your account is created, an ASF infrastructure volunteer will send you a password for the Apache login server (currently minotaur.apache.org which has the aliases of cvspeople.apache.org and svn.apache.org).  This allows you to log in using SSH to set your SVN password, as described \[http://www.apache.org/dev/version-control.html#https-svn here\].  Here's a quick summary of what to do:

  ssh -l MYUSERNAME svnpeople.apache.org
  Password: [YOURPASSWORD]
  svnpasswd

And enter your desired SVN password twice to set it. If you have difficulties logging in with SSH for the first time, make sure you use a keyboard interactive password method.

Another way to do it is to use https://svn.apache.org/change-password , apparently. If all else fails, mail root at apache dot org.

This keeps changing, so look at http://www.apache.org/dev/new-committers-guide.html and http://www.apache.org/dev/version-control.html for a more canonical set of instructions. If those pages differ from this page, they're more likely to be reliable.

Writable SVN checkout

When you become a committer, you should check out the svn repository using the HTTPS url instead of the HTTP one, so that you have read/write access to the repo. To check out from scratch, assuming that you're using the standard svn commandline client:

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